If KishiYu Were Involved With the Weasley Twins' Plot
Fred and George were liars.
But while good pranksters did have patience, Kishiar and Yuder should have expected that Fred and George wouldn’t have waited until nighttime to get rid of the ‘rat’ still sleeping on his brother’s lap as if the rat didn’t know that he was a grown person.
Kishiar shuddered to think of what it would be like to have a grown man who killed twelve people and framed his own friend for getting that friend’s best friend and the best friend’s wife killed in his house for ten years without knowing. Kishiar didn’t really keep up with the school roster and all the gossip that came with it, but didn’t the Weasley twins have many siblings? And since this Scabbers was a pet, didn’t that mean that these kids were unknowingly washing a grown man when they gave Scabbers a bath?
Kishiar knew that Commander didn’t show up on the Marauder’s Map, but Kishiar couldn’t help but solemnly ask the Kneazle curled around them, “Commander. If you were actually an Animagus, you would tell us, right?”
Commander leaned over Yuder and kissed Kishiar right by the ear. “Meow.”
Although they both should be serious because there were two dots moving fast on their map, both Kishiar and Yuder trembled with amusement.
Kishiar patted Commander on the head, “Never mind. If you were an Animagus, I would still like you. Not as much as Yuder, but you understand.”
Commander nodded.
Yuder shook his head, but Kishiar smiled, happy that Yuder was finally feeling better after that horrible ‘Sirius Black might have been betrayed, falsely accused of everything that had gone wrong, placed into the worst prison in existence without a trial, tortured by Dementors that literally ate happiness and created despair, and was probably set for execution without another trial in the future’ realization.
Kishiar felt like a horrible person for not having realized that Yuder had been bothered by that when they had been reading The Boy Who Lived books. Of course, Yuder would not have liked that tidbit even if they hadn’t known that Peter Pettigrew was alive and the accusations were most likely false at the time. Yuder also had never gotten a true trial despite having waited for one for months in the water dungeons before giving up and letting the world continue to do its worst to him.
At least Yuder was out of that world now and Sirius Black, if he truly was innocent like they deduced him to be, would soon also be out of Azkaban.
When all the preparations were done not even thirty minutes after they all had left the Weasley twins’ room earlier, the Weasley twins finally nonchalantly entered Potter and Weasley’s room.
Yuder frowned because in all that time, the Weasley twins hadn’t gone to see a single professor, but Yuder and Kishiar soon found out that they didn’t have to worry about that.
For ten minutes later, there were explosions.
Explosions loud enough that even Kishiar and Yuder who were in the Hufflepuff dorms didn’t really have an excuse to not run out and check what made the noise.
-
“Weasley! What is the meaning of this?!”
Kishiar and Yuder arrived in time to see most of the professors already in the Gryffindor Common Room where the Weasley twins had brought Potter and Weasley out to play with ‘Scabbers’ earlier.
Or Kishiar had assumed that was what the twins were doing earlier when they could only see everyone as little labeled dots on the map. Kishiar still had no idea how the explosions came into the plan, even if it had effectively gathered the most professors together in the shortest amount of time.
Professor Snape and they were one of the last ones arriving at the scene… which was surprisingly intact.
Kishiar had thought that there would have been total destruction, but perhaps the Weasleys had at least enough restraint to not get themselves expelled over this and used a sound bomb instead.
Or extremely tampered fireworks, Kishiar thought, eyeing the scorch marks on the ceiling.
In the middle of the room, Fred and George, who looked like they were in an argument with both the Gryffindor first years and the professors that had arrived earlier, beamed when they looked up to see them. Well, they scowled a little at the sight of Professor Snape, but ignoring Professor Snape and his earlier demand for the Weasleys to explain, Fred waved to them.
“Orr! Aile! Just the fine geniuses we need! We have a problem requiring your expertise!”
Kishiar arched a brow. Kishiar thought that he had told the Weasleys not to involve them. Did the Weasleys think that he had only said that because he was ‘a first year scared of a serial killer’ who didn’t want to get involved unless they were safely surrounded by professors?
But having been called out, Kishiar and Yuder walked over to the circle.
“What happened?” Kishiar asked with sufficient curiosity for the situation.
“Never mind that.” Fred waved dismissively, to the ire of some, namely, Professor McGonagall and his little brother. Even Potter looked a little mad at Fred. “See that rat in Ronniekin’s hand? Gred and I the ingenious Forge made the best rat maze for the rat to play in! Just to see how smart the rat was!”
That… Kishiar really did not see how the explosions came into play.
Kishiar found out soon afterwards.
“And then we realized that Scabbers had to be the smartest human because there’s no way he could be the smartest rat and yet not a rat at the same time!”
“That doesn’t even make sense.” Potter irately said and the youngest Weasley nodded, growling as he held the rat carefully in his hands.
On a closer look, it was no wonder why ‘Scabbers’ wasn’t running away from the twins or the accusation of being human. The sound explosion must have knocked the Animagus out. Was that what the explosion was for? To both pop the rat’s ears and knock him unconscious for their current ‘trial’?
“Yeah, Fred, George! I let you put him in the maze because you said it would just be harmless fun! That was not harmless fun! You could have hurt Scabbers with all those traps, poisoned candy, and the panel that let out fireworks that he stepped on!”
“They made Scabbers do it by setting the entrance on fire and telling him that the only way to escape was to find the exit.” Potter added.
“You did what?!” The Gryffindor Prefect shouted, having apparently heard this for the first time. “Fred! George!”
“It was his victory fireworks!” George defended, ‘apparently’ finding that the only thing that he had done wrong out of all the accusations. “But we might have been a little off when we had tampered with the fireworks.” George admitted as he looked up at the same scorch marks that Kishiar had saw earlier.
“Just a little off?” Professors Sprout and McGonagall echoed, looking highly unimpressed.
Meanwhile, Kishiar almost let how impressed he was show. Pranksters had to be a little mean to pull pranks on people just going by their day, but that was vicious.
Then again, Kishiar would have done the same to everyone in their previous world who had hurt Yuder.
Make the rat feel like a rat. If the rat had wanted to escape so badly, he had always had another option: that is, to just reveal himself as the human he wanted to be treated as.
But of course, there was no other escape than that. Just as you had made every step of my beloved hell, I would also make yours the same and ‘the final step out’ would be the final trap to completely ruin and end you.
Kishiar very carefully didn’t reveal how much he liked the idea of that kind of revenge.
“So why don’t you think he’s a rat?” Yuder asked, ignoring everything and making the twins beam.
“There! That’s the right question everyone should be asking! As expected of the genius!” Fred clapped. Pointing dramatically to the scorched ruins of an enclosed maze on the floor behind the couches, Fred asked, “Look there! What do you see?”
“…Ashes?” Yuder asked in bemusement. Tippy-toeing to have a better look over the couch, Yuder added in even more confusion. “And remnants of pitfall traps with needles, swinging axes, a rolling iron ball, arrows… and a mini Bludger?”
“And melted candy!” Fred ignored those answers to give his own. “The rat didn’t eat the candy! Even if a rat was smart, he would have eaten the poisoned candy if we hadn’t shown him it before! It was even his favorite flavor!”
“That’s stupid.” The youngest Weasley said flatly, still glaring darkly at Fred. “And Scabbers is smarter than to eat anything from you.”
“He was also running for his life.” Potter loyally added. “He would have had no time to eat before the fire got to him.”
“Psh.” Fred waved his hand, “That’s what you believe, but I believe in Scabbers. And how he has to be a human because no normal rat could have escaped that maze.”
The Gryffindor Prefect looked like he was going to blow up.
The youngest Weasley did.
“YOU KNEW THAT AND STILL PUT SCABBERS INTO THAT MAZE!!!”
“In the first place, how could a rat be human?” Potter asked loudly, glaring at the twins.
Fred only grinned as if feeding on their anger. Although it was an act, it was surprisingly very in character. “Why, of course, by being an Animagus, Harry! That’s why we should have Professor McGonagall cast the Animagus reversal spell!”
Professor McGonagall looked like she was very over this and now that the twins had said their piece, she was going to say hers: that she was not going to humor them by casting the Animagus reversal spell and that the twins would have detention for the rest of the year.
But Kishiar elbowed Yuder and Yuder sighed, the sound stopping Professor McGonagall and any other professor from starting to scold the twins and lecture them about proper pet care, animal abuse, tampering fireworks to that degree and setting them off indoors, a list of many things.
“Well, it could be human…” Yuder said dubiously, not sounding at all convinced and definitely not convincing anyone else.
But there was a reason why Kishiar had Yuder say it.
In the resounding silence, everyone stared at Yuder. And then Professor Snape sighed and then gave everyone, especially the twins, a glare.
Taking out his wand, Professor Snape took a step forward. “Enough of this nonsense. I’ll do it and then you can make sure your Gryffindors don’t get into more trouble.” Professor Snape sneered at everyone, addressing the last bit to Professor McGonagall.
Professor McGonagall pursed her lips, but didn’t stop him, unable to deny that the Weasleys in trouble right now were under her House and responsibility nor able to stop Professor Snape from wanting to end this fiasco faster for all the professors and students gathered.
Although the other professors looked just as dubious as everyone else that the pet rat was an Animagus, they also didn’t stop Professor Snape as he quickly casted the spell.
Although the Weasley twins were surprised that it was Professor Snape coming to their rescue (or rather a certain firstie’s), the Weasley twins barely hid their grins of glee as the bright blue light hit Scabbers and then-
It was like watching a sped-up film of a growing tree. A head was shooting upwards from the rat; limbs were sprouting; next moment, the youngest Weasley dropped the ‘rat’ and ‘a dirty, haggard man’ startled awake where the sleeping rat should have been.
Any anger towards the twins was forgotten.
And Professor Flitwick once again proved himself as the fastest as he quickly immobilized the man from approaching and touching any of his students after a startled squeak.
Despite the emotional whiplash from the sudden turn of the events, every Professor treated the breach of security and safety of the students, no matter how frustrating they may be like the Weasley twins, seriously.
“Who are you and why are you pretending to be a rat?” The Hogwarts professors asked, eyes as cold as steel as they stared at the stuttering man who quailed at the sight of them as he should be doing.
-
POTION PROFESSOR EXPOSES UNREGISTERED ANIMAGUS IN HIDING AT HOGWARTS
MURDERER OF 12 MUGGLES HID FOR 10 YEARS AS PET RAT
SIRIUS BLACK RETRIAL
MINISTRY OF MAGIC’S GREATEST FAILURE FROM 10 YEARS AGO
Professor Snape sighed as he looked through all the headlines of the Daily Prophet.
On one hand, Professor Snape was a little smug that it was he, not Professor McGonagall, who had ‘listened to the students’ and ‘saved them from a rat in hiding’. Not that he had cared for any of the students besides one and not that anyone needed to be saved from Peter Pettigrew who he had remembered to be the coward hiding behind Potter in their Hogwarts years.
On the other hand, why was the person that Professor Snape truly saved from this incident Sirius Black?
Damn it. Professor Snape didn’t know whether he was mad that he had stepped forward to help Aile or not.
…He wasn’t really because that damn rat had caused the death of Lily and Professor Snape would never forgive that.
He wished that he had seen the maze the twins had made in its entirety from the first blaze to its ‘victory fireworks’ finale.
-
“…Tell me the truth, Fred, George.” Percy sighed as all the Weasleys, including Bill and their parents and brother who had come over from Romania at the news, sat around a table in the Gryffindor Common Room next to the still present ruins of a rat maze. “Did you know that Scabbers was an unregistered Animagus?”
“What?!” Fred shouted, ‘incredulous’ at the thought. “Of course not! I really thought that Scabbers was a real rat!”
George nodded in agreement. “We just found him boring after playing with Commander in the morning and wanted to have a little fun.”
Percy stared at the two, everyone did, and then Percy sighed.
“I’m so glad that mother and father never gave you two any pets.”
“Hey! By that logic, what did Charlie do to never get a pet from mum and dad?!” The twins grinned as they asked together.
“He asked for a dragon.” Mrs. Weasley answered, sighing in memory and relaxing a little with her sigh from the sudden shock she had received from reading the news in Romania.
Charlie gave them both a sheepish expression, now realizing a little how bad having a dragon at home would be now that he was a professional dragon handler.
Though Charlie still would have wanted one.
“Who’s Commander?” Bill and Ginny asked, curious about the animal from the name.
While Fred and George answered with a grin, Fred and George high-fived each other under the table.
Although some things didn’t go according to plan, everything went successfully and their parents had even confided in them in secret that they had liked all the finishing touches of their maze.
All of the Weasleys did, even Percy and Ron in hindsight.
Let no one say that the Weasleys didn’t love and protect their own fiercely.
-
“Fred, George…” Harry nervously approached them after their family reunion and talk regarding ‘Scabbers’ and all the things they would have to do now that they realized that the rat was an Animagus: from cleaning the house of each of his traces to remembering anything they might have said in his presence including passwords to things.
Fortunately, it wasn’t much. The Weasleys didn’t have many important things, Scabbers had been too lazy as a pet rat to do anything he could have done while they were unaware, and Ginny, their youngest and a little girl, didn’t care much for the rat to begin with to necessitate any therapy.
“Yeah?” The twins asked as they cleaned up the Gryffindor Common Room, their only punishment after the entire fiasco.
“Sorry about getting mad at you two.” Harry apologized.
The twins laughed, waving off his worries. “It’s alright, Harry! To be honest, if we didn’t know better, we’d kinda think we'd deserve it too!”
Harry squinted, "If we didn't know better? Did you know that Scabbers was a..."
"Of course not, Harry! Kinda silly to think that a rat could be a man, don't you think?" Fred winked at the boy.